Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project - Volume 2

This volume covers Leg 2 of the cruises of the Drilling Vessel Glomar Challenger. Leg 2 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project commenced with the departure of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger from Hoboken, New Jersey on October 1, 1968, and terminated in Dakar, Senegal, on November 24, 1968. During the seven-week period at sea, five sites were drilled across the North Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to achieve the major scientific objectives outlined by the Atlantic Advisory Panel of JOIDES. These objectives were to sample the oldest available sediments in the deep sea, to test the hypothesis of continental drift and sea-floor spreading, and to recover a complete sequence of sediments to serve as a standard biostratigraphic reference section in the North Atlantic.